By George Murumba
24th January 2011
Who will guard Besigye as he campaigns?
The Inter Party Cooperation [IPC] has taken serious issue with the Electoral Commission over the arrest and withdrawal of Dr. Kiizza Besigye’s head of security.
On Thursday 20th January, the head of police security of the IPC presidential candidate Inspector Charles Tumuramye was arrested from Erute North Constituency (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
24th January 2011
AU troops in Somalia
Soldiers from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the UPDF’s African Union peacekeeping troops need urgent funding to continue their operations, a senior United Nations envoy has warned.
UN Special Representative for Somalia Augustine Mahiga told a meeting of the Joint Security Committee (JSC) of Somali officials and interested partners in neighbouring Djibouti that, “…I should take this opportunity to inform you that the [UN] Trust Fund for paying both AMISOM and TFG soldiers is at its lowest”. (more…)
By Steven Mulindwa
24th January 2011
Pro-gay activists protest at Uganda's London mission
A lesbian whose asylum application has been rejected by the United Kingdom (UK) Home Office is to be deported back to Uganda; a country considered by the West to be hostile to homosexuals.
The UK Border Agency is now holding 29 year old Brenda Namigadde. Brenda Namigadde was among many pro-gay activists who staged a demonstration outside Uganda High Commission at London’s Trafalgar Square in 2009 after the government introduced an Anti-Homosexuality Bill (more…)
By Timothy Nsubuga
17th January 2011
Dr. Besigye and Mulwanyamuli at a rally in Soroti
News and pictures coming from the vast Teso sub-region of Eastern Uganda appear to indicate that the Inter Party Cooperation [IPC’s] presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has completely destroyed President Museveni’s dream of recapturing the Teso region from the opposition.
In the 2006 elections, Dr. Kizza Besigye, who had (more…)
By John Stephen Katende
17th January 2011
Can this 'presidential candidate' win an election?
He was “expelled” from his Oyima clan for supporting the wrong political party in Uganda. He made history by contesting in the May 2010 elections in the UK as an independent parliamentary candidate. He was the first FDC man to urge his party to set up “a parallel Electoral Commission” to Kiggundu’s.
FDC’s International Envoy to the United Kingdom and European Union Mr. Sam Akaki (more…)
By Timothy Nsubuga
17th January 2011
In good times: L-R, Sarkozy & Ben Ali hug
They both captured State power through illegal and unconstitutional means. Both of them have ruled their respective countries with a democracy “carrot” in one hand, and a big tyrannical “stick” in the other hand for almost a quarter of a century.
We are of course talking about President Yoweri Museveni who came to power in 1986 and his ‘political twin’ President Ben Ali of Tunisia who came to power in a bloodless ‘palace coup’ in 1987; only a year after Museveni had fought his way to power in Uganda. (more…)
By Sharon S. Tibenda
17th January 2011
Flambouyant Gen. Jeje Ogongo
The Inter Party Cooperation has challenged the UPDF as an institution to either punish State Minister of Defence Gen. Jeje Odongo for his unlawful remarks or openly declare its support for the General so that Ugandans know what to expect from the army in this election.
Gen. Odongo, a flamboyant former army commander, was reported to have told officers and men of the UPDF at Gaddafi Junior Staff College in Jinja last Friday that the widespread calls for the army to stay away from politics in this election were “misguided”. (more…)
By Norman S. Miwambo
17th January 2011
Four exiled former Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) officials who were once close allies of President Paul Kagame have scorned at the Military Court’s ‘bizarre’ 24 and 20 years’ sentences handed to them. (more…)
By George Murumba
17th January 2011
The United Nations has said it has “concrete intelligence” to prove that the former Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo has been involved in inciting violence against its peacekeepers and his own countrymen. (more…)
By Norman S. Miwambo
10th January 2011
Kasubi Tombs Fire: A Kingdom under threat?
A Uganda born US Marine is among many Diaspora Ugandans who have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament Edward Ssekandi over the controversial “Institution of Traditional or Cultural Leaders Bill”.
Capt. Frank Musisi, who sources say has a large Ugandan following in the USA, wrote to Ssekandi on behalf of other Ugandans. In his petition, a copy of which Uganda Correspondent has seen, Capt. Musisi said: (more…)
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